Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With our post-Goldfinger perspective, we can observe the evolution of technique in the Bond series, Ian Fleming wrote novels rich in particular detail, such as the sensation of driving a sports car or sipping vintage wine. In Dr. No, the first film adaptation, these details are carried over with little success, for taste or tactile impressions are difficult to transmit by film...
Clobbered Widow. Nor is Connery backward about claiming that he has helped the James Bond image along no end. "You must realize," he says, "that Ian Fleming's books began coming out after the war and rationing and all that, and they had all this selectivity of detail of eating and drinking. It was marvelous journalism. But Ian told me it was nothing but padding. You know, vodka must be shaken and not stirred, that kind of razzmatazz. But he did write with a bit of size." The only thing the Fleming books lacked, in Connery's view...
...what happened in the next 19 days before Paris was taken by the Allies. The authors, an American and a French journalist, spent three years in research and in interviewing the participants, both major (notably Von Choltitz himself) and minor, a score of whose private stories are recounted in detail. But above all, it is the absorbing story of Von Choltitz' lonely drama of decision...
...they had not sought and could not win. The British offensive, launched in 1879, inexorably rolled on to destroy the most powerful nation that Black Africa ever produced. Author Morris has burdened the story of the Zulu nation's fitful reign and ultimate decline with unessential detail and endless digression. But the story itself survives his maltreatment...
...Harvard scientist, Leo Goldberg. Higgins Professor of Astronomy, was at Project Gemini headquarters in Houston yesterday observing the flight in detail. Goldberg heads the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Orbiting Solar observatory project, and is closer to the space program than, any one else at the University...